TURDUS VERREAUXI Bocage. 
VERREAUX’S THRUSH. 
Turdus verreauxi, Bocage, Jorn. Sci. Lisb. ii. p. 340 (1870); Sharpe, ed. Layard’s B. S. Afr. 
p. 202 (1876). 
Turdus libonyanus (nec Smith), Sharpe, Cat. Coll. Afr. B. p. 21 (1871); Gurney, in Anderss. 
B. Dam. Ld. p. 115 (1872). 
Turdus libonyanus, pt., Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 199 (1876); Seebohm, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. v. p. 229 (1881). 
Turdus libonyanus (nec Smith), Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 266 (1881). 
Peliocichla schuetti, Cab. J. f. O. 1882, p. 319. 
Turdus libonyanus, var. schuetti, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 165. 
T. similis Т. libonyano, sed minor, et noteeo clarior schistaceo: hypochondriis pallidioribus, aurantiaco-flavis, 
distinguendus. 
Tms is a very pale form of 7, libonyanus, which it replaces in South-western Africa. Seebohm 
(Ibis, 1888, p. 165) considered that it was the summer-plumaged bird which was so pale, and 
that T. tropicalis was the newly moulted autumn form. 
Although neither T. tropicalis nor T. verreauxi are very distinct races of T. libonyanus, І have 
never seen any specimen of the group of so light a grey colour as Andersson's Ombongo example. 
The material for the determination of these Thrushes is at present quite insufficient to form апу 
direct conclusion, and until a series has been collected in every month of the year in one locality 
we cannot expect to understand the changes of plumage in any one of these allied species. 
The present species was described by Professor Barboza du Bocage from a specimen sent by 
Anchieta from Caconda in Benguela, and in his ‘Ornithologie d'Angola' (p. 263) he has given a 
further account of the specimen. In 1886 I could not make up my mind as to what the species 
could be, and I gave a translation of Bocage's original description (Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 
p. 202); but Seebohm, in the fifth volume of the * Catalogue of Birds' (p. 230) united 7. verreauzi 
to Т. libonyanus, though he observed as follows :—“ Examples from Angola are intermediate in the 
colour of the upper parts between 7. libonyanus and Т. tephronotus, and may prove to be a distinct 
Species, in which case they will stand as 7. verreaumi.” 
Besides the original example from Caconda, the two specimens recorded by Professor Bocage 
as T. libonyanus from Quillengues (Orn. Angola, p. 267) must be referred to this species. It is 
certainly the same pale form that was procured by Andersson on the River Okavango, the only 
place that he met with it (B. Damara Land, p. 115). His specimen from Ombongo is iu the 
British Museum. 
In Angola proper the types of T. schuetti were obtained by the German explorers Schütt and 
Von Mechow at Malange and at the foot of the Cahanga passes. My friend Dr. Reichenow was 
the first to express an opinion that T. schuetti was the same species as T. verreauxi; and that this 
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